From SF Gate: “When Chris Manley, a high school senior in South Carolina, started thinking about applying for college, his teachers recommended he use the school library computer to research universities like Duke and Stanford. But he couldn’t reach their Web sites. This was hardly a case of computer illiteracy. “At my school they have filtering software,” Manley says simply, “and I can’t get to these sites, because they’ve been blocked.””

CNet reports that the estimated cost to businesses from the Code Red Microsoft IIS worm is approximately $2.6 billion.

From Info Sync: “Guess what’s happening on September 4th and 6th? Oh, not much – except for Compaq launching its new iPAQ, and Microsoft officially announcing Pocket PC 2002, respectively.”

From CNet: “In a sign of how truly strategic Linux has become, AMD and Intel are angling to lure open-source programmers to their future chip designs.”

randy writes “This story was mentioned in the latest Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) shipment. Talks about a couple companies moving from Linux to Windows and why. It raises some valid issues like the fact that companies may not really care what OS they use as long as it runs the apps they need. If you really need to run PhotoShop or Framemaker, Linux may not be an option. Story is here.”

ZDNet reports that Intel has added three new processors to its low-end Celeron line. The processors are 950MHz, 1GHz, and 1.1GHz.

From PC World: “Reports of Linux’s death on the desktop have been greatly exaggerated. So says a small group of vendors at LinuxWorld Expo this week. Surrounded by scores of booths hyping everything from a “secure server-side Java platform” to “parallel supercompilers,” we found several offerings proving that the dream of an open source desktop is nowhere near dead, and that users are not about to be neglected by open source community.”

Kelly McNeill writes “Technology today has outpaced the law. Our freedoms in this young digital age are untested because they lie outside the traditional process. Digital technologies like the Internet and the personal computer have opened up new territory — cyberspace — which is essentially unregulated by existing law. This will change. Like government, freedom also must have checks and balances. The demands of the digital age require new regulation to maintain the current equitable balance we currently enjoy. But will this regulation serve our best interests?”

From PC World: “Three years after its passage, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is still making people wonder if they are getting the right kind of protection for the right reasons.”

From Network World Fusion: “As the Linux faithful unveiled their enterprise wares at this week’s LinuxWorld, Microsoft openly cast a critical eye on the proceedings.”